As your application grows, you'll want to use the same logic on many pages without having to duplicate it, and you'll want to group together all the code that refers to a particular type of data (also known as a class of object).

Object Oriented Programming for Structured Programmers - conversion trainingI've been programming for many years; I started off with languages like Fortran and quickly learned that it's a good idea to split the code into named chunks - which were known as FUNCTIONs and SUBROUTINEs. This means that parts of a program can be tested named chunk by named chunk, that chunks can ...

Q - Should I use Perl or Python?An interesting question posed to me today - and not for the first time. And not for the first time, my answer had to be "tell me more about your application, and about the people who will be writing and maintaining it".
A comparative diagram on the board provides some help - but of course what's important ...

Should I use structured or object oriented?There's no "one size fits all" answer to "what's the best way for me to meet this application requirement", and if you're writing code there will be a number of different approached / methodologies you can use. I'm going to have a look at some of the possible choices and relate it to PHP today ... it's ...